Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Arquette and The Diary of a Teenage Girl breakout star are set for Kirsten Dunst’s movie adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. The two will join previously announced cast members, Dakota Fanning and Jesse Plemons as well as Stacy Martin.
Bel Powley
While struggling with a terminal illness, a family man is given the chance to save his life by two drifters who offer him a kidney in exchange for a house, but after he agrees, they change the terms of their agreement.
Set in the 1950s, follows Greenwood, who takes an internship at a magazine in New York City and, after she returns home to Boston, begins to suffer from mental illness.
Game of Thrones stars Maisie Williams and Stephen Dillane have joined Elle Fanning and Bel Powley in A Storm In The Stars. Tom Sturridge and Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt round out the cast.
A Storm in the Star has found its Percy Shelley to its Mary Wollstonecraft. British actor, Ben Hardy will step into the role of the legendary poet who married the woman who would later become the author of the literary classic Frankenstein.
Carol ties Bridge of Spies with nine nominations each, and BAFTA’s 2013 EE Rising Star Award winner Alicia Vikander lands nods as both Leading Actress and Supporting Actress.
The 2015 Gotham Awards, celebrating the year’s best in independent film, were held in New York on Monday. Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight was the night’s big winner, receiving Best Feature, Best Screenplay and a special jury award for Ensemble Cast Performance. See the full list of winners and nominees here.
The 2015 Independent Spirit Awards nominations are out! The ceremony was founded by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. Check out this year’s nominations here!
Anna spends her entire childhood in a single room under the care of a mysterious man she only knows as ‘Daddy’. He makes her fear the ‘Outside’ by telling her of a creature called the Wildling. At age 16, Anna is freed by small-town sheriff Ellen Champney, but her greatest ordeal is yet to come…
A teenager living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother’s boyfriend.
Logline: Based on the life-story of Richard Wershe Jr., who at the age of 14, went undercover as an informant for local and federal law enforcement agencies during the mid-80s and quickly went from being an asset to an issue after being arrested for possession of 17 pounds of cocaine at the age of 17 — and then sentenced to life without parole.
Newcomer Jared Abrahamson is also attached to the project.
A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Logline: A young law student who, while grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether or not if he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
Logline: Story revolves around the love affair between poet Percy Shelley and the brilliant 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft.
Logline: Centers on a teenage artist who begins a relationship with her mother’s boyfriend.
Logline: A 19-year-old former prodigy who has graduated Harvard with no real life experiences embraces a list of things to do from her therapist.
